a new immigration requirement?

talk about silly reasons why spouses can be denied a visa!

"He has years' worth of phone bills showing he calls his wife three times a week, often talking for more than an hour. Ranjit writes him letters at least twice a month. There are many photographs of the pair together and hotel receipts from their trips to Delhi to visit the Canadian High Commission.

One of the government rejection letters said the pair looks too stiff in some pictures to be a real married couple.

Pannu and Ranjit "do not depict the comfort level that is visible in photographs of a married couple. You and [Pannu] look distant and aloof in the photographs," said the letter signed by Heather Dube, a first secretary at the high commission in Delhi.

Family friend and community activist Gurnam Singh Sanghera said the comment is outrageous and shows the Canadian official does not understand Sikh culture, in which public shows of affection are not typical."

hmm... good thing we didn't look aloof in our photographs then!